Quotes About Complexity

Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.

It's hard to be bipolar and bicoastal at the same time.

Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.

At any given time, no matter how deeply you are in love with one person, they're appealing to a very specific side of you.

Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

You don't have to like your family, you don't even have to spend time with them, to know them right down to the bone.

Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside.

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!

But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.

O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.

I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.

America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.

Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.

I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.

I think this is one of those issues where the deeper you dig, the murkier it gets - and everyone who has spent a lot of time thinking about these issues.

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.

I do think it is possible to be in love with two people at the same time.

I spent a lot of time trying to layer upon layer upon layer as I wrote. I think that's often the fear of a writer, that little nuances won't get picked up.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.